Tour de Ski 2008/09

Tour de Ski 2008/09
	Men's	Ladies
winner
Tour winner	Dario Cologna	Virpi Kuitunen
prolog	Axel Teichmann	Claudia Nystad
persecution	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Virpi Kuitunen
1st sprint	Gate Arne Hetland	Arianna Follis
Distance races	Axel Teichmann	Virpi Kuitunen
2nd sprint	Petter Northug	Arianna Follis
Mass start	Axel Teichmann	Virpi Kuitunen
Mountain pursuit	Ivan Babikov	Therese Johaug
Competitions
Venues	4th	4th
Individual competitions	7th	7th
Attendees
Nations	19th	16
athlete	66	51
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The Tour de Ski 2008/09 (sponsor name: Viessmann FIS Tour de Ski performance by Craft Sportswear ) was a stage race organized as part of the 2008/09 Cross-Country World Cup . It took place between December 27, 2008 and January 4, 2009 at four different locations in three countries.

In the women's category, the Finn Virpi Kuitunen , who had already won the first Tour de Ski, won ahead of her compatriot Aino-Kaisa Saarinen and the Slovenian Petra Majdič . In the men's race, the Swiss Dario Cologna won without a single stage win - with the exception of handicap starts - ahead of Petter Northug from Norway and Axel Teichmann , who won three individual stages .

For the first time, the Tour de Ski actually took place in three countries. At the first two events, Nové Město na Moravě and Oberstdorf had to cancel the organization at short notice. During the entire Tour de Ski, the women covered a distance of 60 kilometers, the men ran a total of 102 kilometers.

Apron

Cancel

Last year's winner Charlotte Kalla (pictured here during the Tour de Ski 2007/2008) canceled her participation because of a cold.

Right after the 2007/08 event , Swedish coaches criticized the Tour de Ski's unfavorable schedule a year later. Only a few days after this, the test runs for the 2010 Winter Olympics were to take place in Vancouver , leaving the athletes with little time to relax.

In December 2008, the number of rejections from some prominent cross-country skiers increased. Johan Olsson , who had already won a World Cup race, wanted to prepare more intensively for the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2009 , Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset did not start for health reasons. Simen Østensen , who had successfully participated in the first two events, was not nominated, as was Betty-Ann Bjerkreim Nilsen . The Austrian Christian Hoffmann was also unable to start because of a flu-like infection and was replaced by Martin Stockinger .

In contrast to Tobias Angerer , who recovered from his flu in time, the Swiss Laurence Rochat had to cancel because of a virus. Sprint specialist Ola Vigen Hattestad , who had been overall World Cup leader until then, voluntarily decided not to take part, as he considered the Tour de Ski to be too strenuous. The last prominent failure was last year's winner Charlotte Kalla , who finally canceled the Tour de Ski shortly before the start because of a cold.

Forecasts

Since seven World Cup races had already taken place before the Tour de Ski, the FIS treated these athletes as favorites before the tour. The selected top favorites are marked with an asterisk (*), the favorites with a superscript one ( ¹ ). All unmarked athletes were considered challengers. In addition, the last column shows what position the runner actually achieved.

Favorites for the overall standings Women Virpi Kuitunen 1  Finland 1. Marit Bjørgen 1  Norway 10. Justyna Kowalczyk 1  Poland 4th Aino-Kaisa Saarinen 1  Finland 2. Arianna Follis 1  Italy 8th. Therese Johaug  Norway 6th Petra Majdič  Slovenia 3. Valentyna Shevchenko  Ukraine 14th Kristin Størmer Steira  Norway 9. Marianna Longa  Italy 5.

Favorites for the overall standings Men Lukáš Bauer *  Czech Republic 11. Martin Johnsrud Sundby 1  Norway 8th. Alexander Legkov 1  Russia 34. Giorgio Di Centa 1  Italy 4th Petter Northug 1st  Norway 2. Pietro Piller Cottrer 1  Italy 7th Gate Arne Hetland  Norway 43. Marcus Hellner  Sweden - René Sommerfeldt  Germany - Sami Jauhojärvi  Finland 10. Tord Asle Gjerdalen  Norway 23.

While most of the predictions for women came true, many of the men's pre-favorites did not match the top 10 athletes. Defending champion Lukáš Bauer in particular did not meet the expectations placed in him, but he also focused particularly on the Nordic World Ski Championships , which took place in 2009 with Liberec in his home country. The later Tour winner Dario Cologna was also considered a possible favorite before the stage race, as he had already distinguished himself as an all-rounder in the first World Cup competitions and was second in the overall World Cup. Axel Teichmann did not see himself as a favorite before the Tour de Ski, but took on this role after good results in the first races.

World cup

In the seven World Cup races before the Tour de Ski, some athletes had stood out for both women and men, including some who had barely appeared before.

In the women's category , Aino-Kaisa Saarinen was already the relay world champion in 2007, but she had only celebrated one individual World Cup victory. In November and December 2008, however, she performed more strongly than in previous years and secured the lead in the overall World Cup with four podium finishes in the first five races and two other top ten results. Just eight points behind was the Slovenian Petra Majdič , who had been strong in previous years, but more as a sprint specialist. This season, too, she had won all three sprints that had taken place up to the start of the tour, which made her the favorite, especially for the sprint standings. In third and fourth place were two established athletes, Marit Bjørgen and Virpi Kuitunen .

The men's overall classification was led by a cross-country skier, Ola Vigen Hattestad , who scored his points exclusively in sprints, where he had won all three races. As a pure sprint specialist, Hattestad did not take part in the Tour de Ski, so the young Swiss Dario Cologna had the chance to take the lead in the overall World Cup. The U23 world champion had only collected a few points in the previous season and was therefore considered a surprise. His all-rounder qualities in particular helped him to his good position in the overall World Cup; although he had only reached one podium, there were already 208 points on his account. Another sprinter followed with Tor Arne Hetland in third place, while distance runner and fourth-placed Johan Olsson decided not to start the tour. Petter Northug in fifth place had shown himself particularly strong in the endurance races that season, but in the previous winters he had also been successful in the sprint.

Overall World Cup results before the Tour de Ski

Women 1. Aino-Kaisa Saarinen  Finland 397 points 2. Petra Majdič  Slovenia 389 points 3. Marit Bjørgen  Norway 280 points 4th Virpi Kuitunen  Finland 271 points 5. Justyna Kowalczyk  Poland 263 points

Men 1. Ola Vigen Hattestad  Norway 300 points 2. Dario Cologna  Switzerland 208 points 3. Gate Arne Hetland  Norway 191 points 4th Johan Olsson  Sweden 186 points 5. Petter Northug  Norway 172 points

Venues and races

Oberhof Nové Město na Moravě Prague Val di Fiemme

Location of the venues

 Oberhof :

• December 27th: Prologue, free technique , individual start, 2.5 km (women) and 3.75 km (men).
• December 28: Pursuit, classic, handicap start *, 10 km (women) and 15 km (men).

 Prague :

• December 29th: Sprint, free technique, 1 km (women and men).

 Nové Město na Moravě :

• December 31: Endurance race, classic, 10 km (women) and 15 km (men).
• January 1st: Sprint, free technique, 1 km (women and men) ..

 Val di Fiemme :

• January 3: Endurance race, classic, mass start, 10 km (women) and 20 km (men).
• January 4th: Mountain pursuit, free technique, handicap start *, 9 km (women) and 10 km (men).

(*) Handicap start: This race will start in the order of the current overall classification, i.e. the leader first. The starting distance is the result of the difference in the total times between the starters of all races completed up to then.

Results

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The 2007 winner, Virpi Kuitunen

Dario Cologna (pictured here at the season finale in Trondheim) took the lead in the overall standings after the second stage and ultimately won the Tour de Ski.

The overall ranking is based on the cumulative times of all seven tour stages. In sprint competitions, the qualification time is counted. Furthermore, bonus seconds will be deducted from the end time before this was added to the total time. Bonus seconds are awarded for both sprint stages and distance stages.

For the overall ranking of the Tour de Ski, four times the number of points according to the FIS point system will be awarded to the best 30 athletes. These points are only counted for the overall World Cup.

space	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th
Tour de Ski	400	320	240	200	180	160	144	128	116	104	96	88	80	72	64

space	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23	24	25th	26th	27	28	29	30th
Tour de Ski	60	56	52	48	44	40	36	32	28	24	20th	16	12	8th	4th

First, the Germans Axel Teichmann and Claudia Nystad won the leadership jersey as prologue winners. Nystad lost this on the second stage, a pursuit race after the prologue, on the first kilometers. From the six-strong leading group of favorites, the Finn Virpi Kuitunen was able to take the lead in the overall ranking. In the men's race, Dario Cologna from Switzerland took the lead a few seconds ahead of Teichmann. While Cologna, as a good sprinter, also defended the jersey in the first sprint race in Prague , Kuitunen fell far behind and left the overall lead to the Italian Arianna Follis . This in turn lost a lot of time to Kuitunen in the endurance race in Nové Město na Moravě , so that the Finn and winner of the Tour de Ski 2006/07 took the lead again. Cologna, on the other hand, managed to maintain its lead this time, although he lost half a minute to Axel Teichmann.

In the second sprint, Aino-Kaisa Saarinen won the women's jersey because she was better than Kuitunen. Cologna defended the top again by reaching the final in this competition. In the mass start race in Val di Fiemme , the Swiss also retained the overall lead, but was only half a minute ahead of his closest rival Axel Teichmann. For the third time, Virpi Kuitunen took the lead again in the women’s race after securing a few bonus seconds. On the last stage, both leaders held their own at the top, with Cologna clearly winning and Kuitunen narrowly.

Overall standings after seven races:

Women space Surname time 1  Virpi Kuitunen 2: 06: 41.4 h 2  Aino-Kaisa Saarinen + 7.2 s 3  Petra Majdič + 34.5 s 4th  Justyna Kowalczyk +1: 21.1 min 5  Marianna Longa +1: 36.5 min 6th  Therese Johaug + 2: 20.0 min 7th  Anna Haag + 2: 26.5 min 8th  Arianna Follis + 2: 35.6 min 9  Kristin Størmer Steira + 2: 51.8 min 10  Marit Bjørgen + 3: 12.4 min 11  Riitta-Liisa Roponen + 3: 24.6 min 12  Pirjo Murans + 3: 42.3 min 13  Stefanie Boehler + 4: 04.5 min 14th  Valentyna Shevchenko + 4: 06.6 min 15th  Sara Renner + 4: 51.7 min 16  Claudia Nystad + 5: 06.5 min 17th  Katrin Zeller + 5: 23.3 min 18th  Yevgenia Medvedeva + 5: 27.6 min 19th  Olga Rotschewa + 6: 31.4 min 20th  Larissa Kurkina + 6: 37.2 min 21st  Olga Zavyalova + 6: 58.6 min 22nd  Kamila Rajdlová + 7: 18.3 min 23  Yulia Chepalova + 7: 32.6 min 24  Kateřina Smutná + 7: 45.9 min 25th  Sara Lindborg + 8: 17.7 min 26th  Olga Tiagai + 8: 30.5 min 27  Alena Procházková + 9: 01.1 min 28  Svetlana Malahowa + 9: 04.1 min 29  Antonella Confortola + 9: 35.8 min 30th  Magda Genuin + 9: 54.9 min 31  Natalia Ilyina + 10: 17.0 min 32  Yulia Ivanova + 10: 50.0 min 33  Karin Moroder + 11: 43.7 min 34  Vesna Fabjan + 12: 27.6 min 35  Oxana Jatskaya + 13: 17.2 min 36  Lada Nesterenko + 13: 25.0 min 37  Tatjana Mannima + 13: 28.3 min In addition, the following 14 athletes dropped out of the race early:  Seraina Mischol DNS , 2nd stage  Elena Antonova DNF , 2nd stage  Tatiana Roschina DSQ , 3rd stage  Eliska Hajkovà DNS, 4th stage  Nicole Fessel DNS, 4th stage  Manuela Henkel DNS, 4th stage  Eva Skalníková DNS, 5th stage  Jenny Hansson DNS, 6th stage  Seraina Boner DNS, 6th stage  Maria Rydqvist DNS, 6th stage  Marthe Kristoffersen DNS, 7th stage  Astrid Jacobsen DNS, 7th stage  Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle DNS, 7th stage

Men space Surname time 1  Dario Cologna 2:56:05.4 h 2  Petter Northug + 59.0 s 3  Axel Teichmann +1: 02.8 min 4th  Giorgio Di Centa +1: 22.2 min 5  Vasily Rotschew +1: 31.0 min 6th  Jean-Marc Gaillard +1: 39.1 min 7th  Pietro Piller Cottrer +1: 52.7 min 8th  Martin Johnsrud Sundby + 2: 06.3 min 9  Sami Jauhojärvi + 2: 16.4 min 10  Lukáš Bauer + 2: 20.8 min 11  Jaak Mae + 2: 21.6 min 12  Jens Filbrich + 2: 41.5 min 13  Eldar Rønning + 2: 47.7 min 14th  Toni Livers + 2: 49.3 min 15th  Maxim Wylegschanin + 3: 05.2 min 16  Aivar Rehemaa + 3: 07.2 min 17th  Vincent Vittoz + 3: 11.0 min 18th  Nikolai Chebotko + 3: 40.8 min 19th  Andrus Veerpalu + 3: 45.2 min 20th  Devon Kershaw + 3: 55.3 min 21st  John Kristian Dahl + 4: 14.4 min 22nd  Tord Asle Gjerdalen + 4: 20.7 min 23  Daniel Richardsson + 4: 26.2 min 24  David Hofer + 4: 33.7 min 25th  Emmanuel Jonnier + 4: 37.9 min 26th  Matti Heikkinen + 4: 40.7 min 27  Roland Clara + 4: 52.4 min 28  Tom Reichelt + 4: 59.5 min 29  Curdin Perl + 5: 16.1 min 30th  Alexandre Rousselet + 5: 18.9 min 31  Nikolai Pankratov + 5: 24.9 min 32  Valerio Checchi + 5: 28.5 min 33  Alexander Legkov + 5: 37.4 min 34  Fabio Pasini + 6: 29.8 min 35  Ivan Babikov + 7: 05.1 min 36  Jiří Magál + 7: 30.5 min 37  Alexander Kuznetsov + 7: 45.1 min 38  Yevgeny Velichko + 7: 51.3 min 39  Ivan Bátory + 7: 53.6 min 40  Aleš Razým + 8: 20.9 min 41  Algo Kärp + 8: 42.4 min 42  Gate Arne Hetland + 9: 40.1 min 43  Alexander Osipov + 10: 07.1 min 44  Roman Leybyuk + 10: 18.4 min 45  Cyril Miranda + 11: 45.8 min 46  Janusz Krężelok + 11: 57.8 min 47  Andrei Gridin + 13: 30.6 min 48  Cristian Zorzi + 14: 15.9 min 49  Damien Ambrosetti + 22: 08.8 min 50  Roddy Darragon + 22: 37.8 min 51  Martin Stockinger + 23: 05.0 min 52  Francesc Soulié + 23: 23.5 min 53  Jonas Thor Olsen + 23: 51.6 min 54  Harald Wurm + 28: 34.1 min In addition, the following eleven athletes dropped out of the race prematurely:  Philipp Marshal DNS , 2nd stage  Nejc Brodar DNF , 2nd stage  Mathias Fredriksson DNS, 3rd stage  Tim Tscharnke DNS, 3rd stage  René Sommerfeldt DNS, 4th stage  Martin Bajčičák DNS, 5th stage  Södergren is different DNS, 5th stage  George Gray DNS, 6th stage  Milan Šperl DNS, 6th stage  Tobias Angerer DNS, 6th stage  Marcus Hellner DNS, 6th stage  Yevgeny Dementiev Disqualified for doping

Sprint standings overall

All bonus seconds awarded were counted for the sprint evaluation. Since these could also be achieved in intermediate sprints during the mass start race, not only pure sprinters had the chance of winning this classification. In total, a maximum of 225 bonus seconds could be achieved in four races. See also the following table:

space	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23	24	25th	26th	27	28	29	30th
prolog	15th	10	5
Sprints (twice)	60	56	52	48	44	42	40	38	36	34	32	30th	18th	17th	16	15th	14th	13	12	11	10	9	8th	7th	6th	5	4th	3	2	1
Intermediate sprints at mass start (six times)	15th	10	5

In the prologue, Claudia Nystad and Axel Teichmann, the winners of their respective races, took the lead. Since Petra Majdič and Justyna Kowalczyk finished third at the same time in the women's competition , they both received five bonus seconds. After the first sprint in Prague , the jerseys of the leaders went to the two winners Arianna Follis and Tor Arne Hetland , who were each credited with 60 seconds. While Hetland was still further behind in the overall classification, Follis took the lead there too, so Claudia Nystad, who had collected the second-most with a total of 57 bonus seconds, was allowed to wear the jersey on the fourth stage.

Follis also won the second sprint in Nové Město na Moravě and clearly defended the lead, as did Hetland with his second place. Despite the double success in the sprints, the Italian did not manage to win the sprint standings because Petra Majdič secured 35 bonus seconds in the intermediate sprints on the penultimate stage and kept Follis 18 seconds behind in the classification. Hetland, on the other hand, managed to defend his jersey on the last stage with time bonuses by gaining fifteen seconds. Second was the Swiss Dario Cologna .

Overall standings after four races:

Women space Surname time 1  Petra Majdič 148 s 2  Arianna Follis 130 s 3  Aino-Kaisa Saarinen 123 s 4th  Virpi Kuitunen 92 s 5  Marit Bjørgen 74 p 6th  Marthe Kristoffersen 74 p 7th  Marianna Longa 72 s 8th  Vesna Fabjan 72 s 9  Riitta-Liisa Roponen 70 s 10  Claudia Nystad 67 s ... ... ... 15th  Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle 45 s 17th  Stefanie Boehler 37 p 22nd  Nicole Fessel 17 s 24  Katrin Zeller 15 s 25th  Kateřina Smutná 10 s 27  Manuela Henkel 7 s

Men space Surname time 1  Gate Arne Hetland 131 s 2  Dario Cologna 122 s 3  Petter Northug 105 s 4th  John Kristian Dahl 102 s 5  Vasily Rotschew 101 s 6th  Eldar Rønning 88 s 7th  Cristian Zorzi 86 s 8th  Jean-Marc Gaillard 74 p 9  Axel Teichmann 73 p 10  Sami Jauhojärvi 70 s ... ... ... 20th  Martin Stockinger 22 s 26th  Tom Reichelt 14 s 31  Harald Wurm 9 s

Nations ranking

For the nation ranking, the two best male and female athletes of a nation will be evaluated per stage.

Overall standings after seven races:

women and men
space	nation	time
1	Norway	10:08:44.8 h
2	Italy	+ 7: 40.5 min
3	Germany	+ 8: 55.5 min
4th	Finland	+ 10: 18.1 min
5	Russia	+ 11: 38.1 min
6th	Kazakhstan	+ 40: 24.9 min
Since a total of four athletes are included in the team ranking, the following nations were eliminated from the ranking because individual athletes dropped out of this minimum number of athletes.
	Switzerland	1st stage
	Czech Republic	4th stage
	Sweden	7th stage

Stages

In pursuit competitions with a handicap start, the pure running time is used to determine the stage result, so that the finish line does not have to be identical to the stage result. World Cup points were awarded for the best 30 participants at each stage. These points were included in both the overall World Cup ranking and the discipline rankings. The prerequisite for receiving the World Cup points was the completion of all stages of the Tour de Ski.

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Tour de Ski stage	50	46	43	40	37	34	32	30th	28	26th	24	22nd	20th	18th	16	15th	14th	13	12	11	10	9	8th	7th	6th	5	4th	3	2	1

Oberhof (prologue)

The start of the Tour de Ski 2008/2009 was shaped by the German starters in front of a home crowd. Claudia Nystad achieved her third victory in a World Cup competition after a slow start to the season. She relegated the Italian sprint specialist Arianna Follis to second place. Third place was shared by the co-favorites for this year's overall victory Petra Majdič and Justyna Kowalczyk .

The men's race was dominated by Axel Teichmann . The Oberhofer relegated the Swiss Dario Cologna to second place with a lead of eight seconds . The Norwegian Petter Northug , who like Cologna was one of the contenders for victory on this tour, came in third.

Women space Surname time BS 1  Claudia Nystad 6: 17.2 min 15th 2  Arianna Follis + 1.1 s 10 3  Petra Majdič + 2.3 s 5 3  Justyna Kowalczyk + 2.3 s 5 5  Marit Bjørgen + 7.6 s 6th  Pirjo Murans + 8.1 s 7th  Virpi Kuitunen + 9.3 s 8th  Aino-Kaisa Saarinen + 9.6 s 9  Stefanie Boehler + 13.2 s 10  Astrid Jacobsen + 13.5 s 11  Anna Haag + 14.6 s 12  Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle + 15.0 s ... ... ... 16  Nicole Fessel + 17.0 s 20th  Katrin Zeller + 17.7 s 28  Manuela Henkel + 22.6 s 33  Seraina Boner + 27.8 s 39  Kateřina Smutná + 33.1 s 42  Seraina Mischol + 38.0 s

Men space Surname time BS 1  Axel Teichmann 7: 11.8 min 15th 2  Dario Cologna + 8.2 s 10 3  Petter Northug + 13.0 s 5 4th  Aivar Rehemaa + 13.3 s 5  Devon Kershaw + 13.8 s 6th  Tom Reichelt + 14.9 s 7th  Marcus Hellner + 15.0 s 8th  Vasily Rotschew + 15.1 s 9  George Gray + 15.4 s 10  Vincent Vittoz + 16.6 s 11  Pietro Piller Cottrer + 17.2 s 12  Tobias Angerer + 17.8 s ... ... ... 16  René Sommerfeldt + 19.3 s 17th  Curdin Perl + 20.5 s 18th  Jens Filbrich + 21.5 s 34  Tim Tscharnke + 29.3 s 42  Toni Livers + 31.2 s 53  Martin Stockinger + 37.7 s 59  Philipp Marshal + 48.0 s 59  Harald Wurm + 60.0 s

Note: BS = bonus seconds

Oberhof (pursuit)

Athletes during the competition on December 28, 2008 in the DKB-Ski-Arena Oberhof

The race was started at the intervals that arose in the prologue (handicap start), whereby the bonus seconds were also taken into account. There were several groups among the women, with most of the favorites in the front. Claudia Nystad quickly fell back from the lead and couldn't keep up with the group of favorites. At the front, the group of six around Virpi Kuitunen , Marit Bjørgen , Justyna Kowalczyk , Arianna Follis , Aino-Kaisa Saarinen and Petra Majdič remained fairly compact for a long time before Majdič had to tear off a few kilometers from the finish. Shortly before the finish line, Kowalczyk, Follis and Saarinen were also slightly behind by a few seconds. Virpi Kuitunen just took the lead in the overall standings ahead of Marit Bjørgen, less than ten seconds behind the three fallen athletes. Only Majdič got a bigger deficit, which was almost half a minute.

In the men's race, Dario Cologna was 13 seconds behind Axel Teichmann just a few kilometers after the start. These two cross-country skiers now formed a leading group that always kept the gap to the very large field of pursuers at around 25 seconds. Before the finish line, Cologna pulled away from Teichmann by just under five seconds, taking the top of the overall standings. Behind them were Sami Jauhojärvi and Devon Kershaw in third and fourth.

Note: In this table only the time that the respective athlete achieved on the pursuit route is given, not the times of the finish line. However, since the results in the prologue were quite close together, the difference between these two results is not very clear.

Women space Surname time 1  Virpi Kuitunen 23: 56.7 min 2  Marit Bjørgen + 3.9 s 3  Aino-Kaisa Saarinen + 10.4 s 4th  Justyna Kowalczyk + 18.2 s 5  Arianna Follis + 26.9 s 6th  Marianna Longa + 34.4 s 7th  Riitta-Liisa Roponen + 35.1 s 8th  Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle + 38.4 s 9  Petra Majdič + 41.4 s 10  Anna Haag + 41.5 s 11  Pirjo Murans + 41.6 s 12  Astrid Jacobsen + 43.5 s ... ... ... 18th  Katrin Zeller +1: 10.6 min 19th  Kateřina Smutná +1: 13.8 min 23  Claudia Nystad +1: 32.1 min 30th  Manuela Henkel +1: 45.7 min 33  Stefanie Boehler +1: 53.2 min 35  Nicole Fessel + 2: 01.6 min 43  Seraina Boner + 2: 41.6 min

Men space Surname time 1  Martin Johnsrud Sundby 35: 47.9 min 2  Andrus Veerpalu + 2.9 s 3  Toni Livers + 3.5 s 4th  Daniel Richardsson + 4.4 s 5  Sami Jauhojärvi + 6.6 s 6th  Dario Cologna + 7.2 s 7th  Jaak Mae + 9.6 s 8th  Lukáš Bauer + 9.7 s 9  Ivan Bátory + 11.2 s 10  Giorgio Di Centa + 11.8 s 11  Tobias Angerer + 16.5 s 12  Jean-Marc Gaillard + 16.6 s ... ... ... 14th  Curdin Perl + 18.1 s 17th  Jens Filbrich + 19.3 s 25th  Axel Teichmann + 26.1 s 31  René Sommerfeldt + 41.2 s 34  Tom Reichelt + 54.2 s 40  Tim Tscharnke +1: 20.1 min 61  Martin Stockinger + 5: 34.8 min 62  Harald Wurm + 6: 05.0 min

Prague (Sprint)

As with World Cup sprints, all runners started in an individually run prologue. The thirty athletes who needed the shortest time there qualified for five quarter-finals with six starters each. So it went on in the knockout system until the finals, where six cross-country skiers each competed for women and men. Places 7 to 12 were determined in the B final. After that, the athletes received bonus seconds according to their final results, which were deducted from the total time.

Already in the men's prologue, Axel Teichmann, who was second in the overall standings , was eliminated by then. With the women, too, with the wearer of the red jersey, Virpi Kuitunen , a favorite failed early in the quarter-finals. After Dario Cologna was eliminated from the men’s finals, no athletes from Germany, Austria or Switzerland qualified for the men’s final. In the women's category , the German Claudia Nystad managed to do this , but she fell there and was unable to defend the lead in the sprint classification, which was taken over by the winner Arianna Follis . In the men's category, too, the sprint winner, Tor Arne Hetland, took the lead. In the overall standings for women, Kuitunen fell far behind, with Follis taking the lead here too. Despite losing out in the semi-finals, Dario Cologna asserted himself against the men.

Note: The list is sorted according to the end result in the sprint, i.e. the bonus seconds achieved. In addition, the prologue time is included in the overall ranking, this is noted in the time column .

Women space Surname time BS 1  Arianna Follis 2: 52.3 min 60 2  Aino-Kaisa Saarinen 2: 54.8 min 56 3  Petra Majdič 2: 58.3 min 52 4th  Pirjo Murans 2: 56.8 min 48 5  Marthe Kristoffersen 2: 54.9 min 44 6th  Claudia Nystad 2: 58.7 min 42 ... ... 10  Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle 2: 57.6 min 34 13  Stefanie Boehler 2: 55.6 min 18th 14th  Nicole Fessel 2: 56.6 min 17th 19th  Katrin Zeller 3: 01.2 min 12 24  Manuela Henkel 3: 00.4 min 7th 25th  Kateřina Smutná 3: 01.8 min 6th 44  Seraina Boner 3: 08.0 min

Men space Surname time BS 1  Gate Arne Hetland 2: 34.3 min 60 2  Vasily Rotschew 2: 33.8 min 56 3  Jean-Marc Gaillard 2: 38.0 min 52 4th  Sami Jauhojärvi 2: 39.0 min 48 5  John Kristian Dahl 2: 36.2 min 44 6th  Eldar Rønning 2: 37.5 min 42 ... ... ... 8th  Dario Cologna 2: 34.3 min 38 17th  Tom Reichelt 2: 36.7 min 14th 18th  Martin Stockinger 2: 37.3 min 13 20th  Tobias Angerer 2: 38.8 min 11 29  Harald Wurm 2: 37.4 min 2 35  Axel Teichmann 2: 39.8 min 38  Toni Livers 2: 40.0 min 39  René Sommerfeldt 2: 40.0 min 43  Jens Filbrich 2: 40.8 min 47  Curdin Perl 2: 42.2 min

Note: BS = bonus seconds

Nové Město na Moravě (endurance race)

The distance race was the only one besides the prologue that was run individually, that is, at fixed intervals of half a minute or one minute.

For women, there were frequent changes in the fastest times before the favorites came. Virpi Kuitunen , who fell behind in the overall classification due to the sprint, set a new best time at every intermediate measurement point, which was ultimately more than a minute below the previous one. Her rivals also lost a lot of time on the Finn, but also kept the rest of the field at a distance. Kuitunen's compatriot Aino-Kaisa Saarinen , overall World Cup leader, was almost 40 seconds behind at the finish line, while the previously leading Italian Arianna Follis was even more than a minute and 45 seconds behind . Despite being behind before the race, Kuitunen clearly took back the overall lead.

In contrast to the women's competition, the men's race was tighter. Surprisingly, the internationally less successful Kazakhs Nikolai Chebotko took the lead, which he held for a long time. Only Axel Teichmann , who had already won the prologue and like Kuitunen had fallen behind in the sprint, was the first favorite to undercut Chebotko's target. Martin Johnsrud Sundby had already improved Chebotko's time before that, but the Norwegian fell five seconds behind Teichmann. After further favorites had fallen behind, the Russian Wassili Rotschew was able to set an interim best time at the last measuring point. Rotschew, who had been on the road with Teichmann for a long time, lost over half a minute to the German on the last three-kilometer lap. Also Dario Cologna not approached at the time, but defended the overall lead. For the Kazakhs Chebotko, the third place ultimately achieved was his best ever successful World Cup result.

Women space Surname time 1  Virpi Kuitunen 24: 45.4 min 2  Aino-Kaisa Saarinen + 37.6 s 3  Marit Bjørgen + 49.9 s 4th  Justyna Kowalczyk + 55.1 s 5  Petra Majdič + 59.5 s 6th  Marianna Longa +1: 15.0 min 7th  Therese Johaug +1: 22.4 min 8th  Kristin Størmer Steira +1: 25.9 min 9  Valentyna Shevchenko +1: 29.5 min 10  Kateřina Smutná +1: 31.6 min 11  Sara Renner +1: 36.3 min 12  Katrin Zeller +1: 38.2 min ... ... ... 15th  Stefanie Boehler +1: 38.2 min 19th  Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle +1: 54.2 min 30th  Claudia Nystad + 2: 28.0 min 38  Seraina Boner + 2: 59.1 min

Men space Surname time 1  Axel Teichmann 39: 03.7 min 2  Martin Johnsrud Sundby + 5.0 s 3  Nikolai Chebotko + 10.5 s 4th  Jaak Mae + 11.3 s 5  Lukáš Bauer + 13.4 s 6th  Eldar Rønning + 14.7 s 7th  Alexander Legkov + 15.0 s 8th  Nikolai Pankratov + 18.8 s 9  Andrus Veerpalu + 23.1 s 10  Pietro Piller Cottrer + 24.1 s 11  Jens Filbrich + 25.0 s 12  Vincent Vittoz + 26.5 s ... ... ... 15th  Dario Cologna + 31.5 s 19th  Toni Livers + 43.3 s 26th  Curdin Perl +1: 01.5 min 38  Tobias Angerer +1: 26.0 min 45  Tom Reichelt + 2: 03.9 min 60  Martin Stockinger + 5: 09.8 min 61  Harald Wurm + 5: 35.3 min

Nové Město na Moravě (Sprint)

In the second sprint, the rules of the first applied. Since the course in Nové Město was rated much more difficult than the city route in Prague and the distance race between the two sprints was 9 and 15 kilometers respectively, the distance runners also figured they had a chance of a top placement. In fact, all of the favorites for both women and men qualified for the quarter-finals. With the exception of Justyna Kowalczyk, this also took place without favorites for the women , while Axel Teichmann had to finish his race for the men , as did the Finn Sami Jauhojärvi .

In the semi-finals, the overall leader Virpi Kuitunen failed in the women , so that her compatriot Aino-Kaisa Saarinen in particular had the opportunity to take the lead. In the men's category, Wassili Rotschew and Eldar Rønning failed in the semifinals, while Dario Cologna made it to the final so that he was able to extend his lead. The Swedes Anna Haag and Rotschew won the B final . The women's final began with Magda Genuin taking the lead with her skis, which had been declared particularly good. At the finish line she was finally passed by her teammate Arianna Follis , who also triumphed in the second sprint. Genuin also fell behind the new overall leader Saarinen and the Slovenian Petra Majdič and came in fourth.

In the men's final three of the six starters were Norwegians. Petter Northug , otherwise known for attacking on the home straight in most races, drove the sprint from the front as well as the previous laps. Nikolai Tschebotko , who had qualified again for the final after his first place on the podium the day before, fell back a little, as did Dario Cologna. Only Cristian Zorzi , who placed third in Northug's victory, prevented the Norwegians from triumphing three times . Tor Arne Hetland retained the lead in the sprint standings thanks to his second place, as did Arianna Follis.

Women space Surname BS 1  Arianna Follis 60 2  Petra Majdič 56 3  Aino-Kaisa Saarinen 52 4th  Magda Genuin 48 5  Alena Procházková 44 6th  Marianna Longa 40 ... ... 14th  Stefanie Boehler 17th 20th  Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle 11 21st  Claudia Nystad 10 27  Kateřina Smutná 4th 28  Katrin Zeller 3 32  Seraina Boner

Men space Surname BS 1  Petter Northug 60 2  Gate Arne Hetland 56 3  Cristian Zorzi 52 4th  John Kristian Dahl 48 5  Dario Cologna 44 6th  Nikolai Chebotko 40 ... ... 22nd  Martin Stockinger 9 23  Axel Teichmann 8th 24  Harald Wurm 7th 33  Tom Reichelt 37  Curdin Perl 39  Jens Filbrich 41  Tobias Angerer 45  Toni Livers

Note: BS = bonus seconds

Val di Fiemme (endurance race)

This competition was the only mass start of the entire Tour de Ski, that is, all participants started at the same time and the distances at the finish were added to the total time. There were also three or six points at which the first three athletes received 15, 10 and 5 bonus seconds. These were also included in the sprint rating.

In the women's race over 10 kilometers, Virpi Kuitunen managed to win, the Finnish woman was again at the top of the overall standings for the third time. In addition, Kuitunen secured an additional 40 bonus seconds with which she extended the lead over her toughest pursuer Aino-Kaisa Saarinen to 32 seconds. Petra Majdič , who finished second in this race and third in the overall standings, also collected 35 bonus seconds. With that she won the sprint standings ahead of Arianna Follis , who had triumphed in both special sprints, but came away empty-handed on the penultimate stage.

The first laps in the 20-kilometer men's race were characterized by constant attacks, so that the bonus seconds were distributed among many athletes, some of whom were even further behind in the overall standings. After these attacks had been fended off by the large main field, the two front runners Dario Cologna and Axel Teichmann in particular sprinted for time credits. On the last lap, Cologna tried again to break away from Teichmann, but the German was brought back to the front group by his team-mate Jens Filbrich and finally took his third day's win in the sprint to the finish. Behind them were the Finn Sami Jauhojärvi and the Kazakh Nikolai Tschebotko , who already achieved his second podium result at the Tour de Ski. Cologna was fourth two seconds behind Teichmann, losing twenty bonus seconds to the German through the intermediate sprints, but retained the lead in the overall standings. Nothing at the top changed in the sprint classification either, which Tor Arne Hetland defended .

Women space Surname time BS 1  Virpi Kuitunen 30: 10.3 min 40 2  Petra Majdič + 13.8 s 35 3  Aino-Kaisa Saarinen + 20.5 s 15th 4th  Marianna Longa + 24.6 s 5  Marit Bjørgen + 33.0 s 6th  Pirjo Murans + 34.7 s 7th  Stefanie Boehler + 35.6 s 8th  Anna Haag + 36.5 s 9  Therese Johaug + 37.1 s 10  Kristin Størmer Steira + 39.0 s 11  Katrin Zeller + 47.5 s 12  Sara Renner + 48.6 s ... ... ... 16  Kateřina Smutná +1: 07.5 min 17th  Claudia Nystad +1: 17.4 min 26th  Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle +1: 47.1 min

Men space Surname time BS 1  Axel Teichmann 55: 19.2 min 50 2  Sami Jauhojärvi + 0.3 s 10 3  Nikolai Chebotko + 1.3 s 5 4th  Dario Cologna +1.8 s 30th 5  Martin Johnsrud Sundby + 2.5 s 10 6th  Maxim Wylegschanin + 3.9 s 5 7th  Jens Filbrich + 4.0 s 8th  Petter Northug + 6.7 s 9  Jaak Mae + 8.2 s 10  Aivar Rehemaa + 13.8 s 11  Andrus Veerpalu + 14.2 s 12  Eldar Rønning + 14.5 s 10 ... ... ... 25th  Toni Livers + 53.5 s 32  Curdin Perl +1: 54.8 min 37  Tom Reichelt + 2: 00.2 min 51  Martin Stockinger + 7: 19.5 min 55  Harald Wurm + 9: 41.7 min

Note: BS = bonus seconds

Val di Fiemme (mountain pursuit)

As in previous years, the decision of the Tour de Ski was made on the Final Climb in Val di Fiemme . The handicap women's race over nine kilometers began on the initially flatter terrain with Virpi Kuitunen increasing her lead over pursuer Aino-Kaisa Saarinen to over 50 seconds up to six kilometers. Third placed Petra Majdič initially lost time on Kuitunen, but then teamed up with Saarinen. Together, the two pursuers caught up with the Finn in the lead for more than half a minute, before Majdič Saarinen's pace again could not keep up and fell away from her. Nevertheless, Kuitunen's compatriot managed to overtake and overtake the leaders; in the last intermediate time 900 meters from the finish, Saarinen was 3.4 seconds ahead of last year's runner-up. Unlike last year, when Kuitunen had to let her rival Charlotte Kalla win, this time she managed to return to the top. Now Saarinen was no longer able to keep Kuitunen, so she triumphed in the Tour de Ski for the second time. More than half a minute after the winner, Petra Majdič crossed the finish line, followed by Justyna Kowalczyk from Poland, the Italian Marianna Longa and the Norwegian Therese Johaug , who moved up from 11th to sixth place with the best running time of the day. On the other hand, Johaug's team mate Marit Bjørgen had a bad day, losing six places and dropping from fourth to tenth place. In total she lost almost four minutes on Johaug over the nine kilometers. Kristin Størmer Steira also completed a strong race , which, like Johaug, placed herself in the top 10.

In the men's race, the leader Dario Cologna, like Kuitunen, tackled the race quickly, the gap to Axel Teichmann increased from 35 seconds to one minute at the beginning of the climb. Behind it, a group of three had come together, consisting of the Russian Wassili Rotschew and the two Norwegians Eldar Rønning and Petter Northug . This group, in turn, was more than a minute ahead of a large group of ten athletes. During the first 500 meters of the climb, Rønning fell away from Rotschew and Northug and was overtaken by the group behind. From this Giorgio Di Centa , who had run a strong race up to then and had also lost Cologna a few seconds, pulled away. Teichmann was 1.5 kilometers from the finish on the Alpe Cermis one and a half minutes behind Cologna and ten seconds ahead of Rotschew and Northug. While the leading Swiss had a reassuring lead on the last kilometer, Teichmann kept his tight time cushion of ten seconds on the two pursuers. The two Italians di Centa and Pietro Piller Cottrer as well as the French Jean-Marc Gaillard followed with only ten to twenty seconds behind them . Shortly after the last timing point, Rotschew Northug no longer stopped, although the latter started more successfully as a sprinter. While Rotschew was quickly overtaken by Giorgio Di Centa, Northug approached Axel Teichmann and sprinted over him on the home straight. The Norwegian was 59 seconds behind Dario Cologna, who won the Tour de Ski with ease without being fastest in a single stage. Di Centa finished fourth, followed by Rotschew, Gaillard and Piller Cottrer. Last year's winner Lukáš Bauer from the Czech Republic advanced from 19th to eleventh place, but still missed the top 10, more than two minutes behind Cologna. The fastest of the day, however, was surprisingly the Canadian Ivan Babikov , who hardly benefited from this in the overall standings and was a good seven minutes behind in 36th place. Tom Reichelt , who finished the Tour de Ski in 29th place, was only 1.5 seconds slower than Babikov .

Note: In this table only the time that the respective athlete achieved on the pursuit route is given, not the times of the finish line. The finish line is based on the final result of the Tour de Ski.

Women space Surname time 1  Therese Johaug 35: 07.7 min 2  Kristin Størmer Steira + 8.7 s 3  Valentyna Shevchenko + 44.3 s 4th  Justyna Kowalczyk + 47.1 s 5  Yevgenia Medvedeva + 54.6 s 6th  Anna Haag + 58.4 s 7th  Riitta-Liisa Roponen +1: 07.9 min 8th  Stefanie Boehler +1: 10.8 min 9  Marianna Longa +1: 13.7 min 10  Yulia Chepalova +1: 28.9 min 11  Larissa Kurkina +1: 35.3 min 12  Claudia Nystad +1: 48.7 min ... ... ... 14th  Arianna Follis +1: 50.2 min 15th  Aino-Kaisa Saarinen +1: 54.7 min 16  Petra Majdič + 2: 04.6 min 21st  Virpi Kuitunen + 2: 19.2 min 25th  Katrin Zeller + 2: 32.8 min 29  Marit Bjørgen + 3: 55.4 min 29  Kateřina Smutná + 4: 18.8 min

Men space Surname time 1  Ivan Babikov 33: 51.2 min 2  Tom Reichelt + 1.5 s 3  Giorgio Di Centa + 3.2 s 4th  Matti Heikkinen + 12.0 s 5  Lukáš Bauer + 15.2 s 6th  Jean-Marc Gaillard + 21.7 s 7th  Vincent Vittoz + 29.1 s 8th  Roland Clara + 31.4 s 9  Maxim Wylegschanin + 32.6 s 10  Toni Livers + 32.9 s 11  Jiří Magál + 48.1 s 12  Pietro Piller Cottrer + 48.7 s ... ... ... 13  Petter Northug + 56.4 s 15th  Yevgeny Dementiev +1: 08.5 min 19th  Sami Jauhojärvi +1: 17.0 min 23  Dario Cologna +1: 20.8 min 27  Jens Filbrich +1: 27.6 min 28  Martin Johnsrud Sundby +1: 29.5 min 29  Vasily Rotschew +1: 32.7 min 31  Curdin Perl +1: 35.9 min 34  Axel Teichmann +1: 49.5 min 52  Martin Stockinger + 4: 48.1 min 55  Harald Wurm + 6: 30.6 min

Note: BS = bonus seconds

World Cup points

This list shows the athletes who were in the first ten places in the overall classification after the Tour de Ski 2008/2009. The points before and after the Tour de Ski as well as the placements at the individual stages are named. For the latter, points were awarded according to the following pattern.

space	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23	24	25th	26th	27	28	29	30th
Points	50	46	43	40	37	34	32	30th	28	26th	24	22nd	20th	18th	16	15th	14th	13	12	11	10	9	8th	7th	6th	5	4th	3	2	1

In the overall ranking of the Tour de Ski, the best 30 athletes also received four times the number of normal World Cup points of the FIS point system , the winner received 400, the second 320, etc.

Explanation

• Place: The ranking of the runner in the overall World Cup after the Tour de Ski
• Name: The name of the athlete
• 1-7: The number of points achieved in the first seven normal World Cup races
• 8-14: The placements and points in the Tour-de-Ski competitions with links to the individual competitions
• Total : The placement in the overall ranking and the associated number of points
• Points: The total number of points in the World Cup after the Tour de Ski
• Remarks
  • In the second stage, World Cup points were awarded after the finish, not the race result.
  • The list can be sorted : by clicking on a column header, the list is sorted according to this column; clicking twice reverses the sorting. Any combination can be achieved by clicking on several columns in a row.

Women

space	Surname	1-7	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	Ges.	Points
1.	Aino-Kaisa Saarinen	397 P.	8. (30 p.)	5. (37 p.)	2. (46 P.)	2. (46 P.)	3. (43 P.)	3. (43 P.)	15. (16 p.)	2. (320 P.)	978 P.
2.	Virpi Kuitunen	271 P.	7. (32 p.)	1. (50 p.)	17. (14 p.)	1. (50 p.)	8. (30 p.)	1. (50 p.)	21. (10 p.)	1. (400 p.)	907 P.
3.	Petra Majdič	389 P.	3. (43 P.)	6. (34 p.)	3. (43 P.)	5. (37 p.)	2. (46 P.)	2. (46 P.)	16. (15 p.)	3. (240 p.)	893 P.
4th	Justyna Kowalczyk	263 P.	3. (43 P.)	3. (43 P.)	11. (24 p.)	4. (40 p.)	26. (5 p.)	15. (16 p.)	4. (40 p.)	4. (200 p.)	674 P.
5.	Marit Bjørgen	280 p.	5. (37 p.)	2. (46 P.)	7. (32 p.)	3. (43 P.)	10. (26 p.)	5. (37 p.)	29. (2 p.)	10. (104 P.)	607 P.
6th	Arianna Follis	202 P.	2. (46 P.)	4. (40 p.)	1. (50 p.)	16. (15 p.)	1. (50 p.)	24. (7 p.)	14. (18 p.)	8. (128 P.)	556 P.
7th	Marianna Longa	149 P.	17. (14 p.)	8. (30 p.)	12. (22 p.)	6. (34 p.)	6. (34 p.)	4. (40 p.)	9. (28 p.)	5. (80 p.)	531 P.
8th.	Kristin Størmer Steira	200 p.	29. (2 p.)	17. (14 p.)	38.	8. (30 p.)	31.	10. (26 p.)	2. (46 P.)	9. (116 P.)	434 P.
9.	Therese Johaug	130 p.	26. (5 p.)	14. (18 p.)	32.	7. (32 p.)	30. (1 P.)	9. (28 p.)	1. (50 p.)	6. (160 p.)	424 P.
10.	Pirjo Murans	118 P.	6. (34 p.)	7. (32 p.)	4. (40 p.)	18. (13 p.)	13. (20 p.)	6. (34 p.)	23. (8 p.)	12. (88 p.)	387 P.

Men

space	Surname	1-7	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	Ges.	Points
1.	Dario Cologna	208 P.	2. (46 P.)	1. (50 p.)	8. (30 p.)	15. (16 p.)	5. (37 p.)	4. (40 p.)	23. (8 p.)	1. (400 p.)	835 p.
2.	Petter Northug	172 P.	3. (43 P.)	9. (28 p.)	7. (32 p.)	28. (3 p.)	1. (50 p.)	8. (30 p.)	13. (20 p.)	2. (320 P.)	698 P.
3.	Axel Teichmann	137 P.	1. (50 p.)	2. (46 P.)	35.	1. (50 p.)	23. (8 p.)	1. (50 p.)	34.	3. (240 p.)	581 P.
4th	Sami Jauhojärvi	160 p.	29. (2 p.)	4. (40 p.)	4. (40 p.)	40.	19. (12 p.)	2. (46 P.)	19. (12 p.)	10. (104 P.)	416 P.
5.	Pietro Piller Cottrer	142 P.	11. (24 p.)	16. (15 p.)	16. (15 p.)	10. (26 p.)	26. (5 p.)	16. (15 p.)	12. (22 p.)	7. (144 p.)	408 P.
6th	Vasily Rotschew	70 p.	8. (30 p.)	20. (11 p.)	2. (46 P.)	16. (15 p.)	7. (32 p.)	17. (14 p.)	29. (2 p.)	5. (180 p.)	400 p.
7th	Giorgio Di Centa	56 P.	23. (8 p.)	8. (30 p.)	11. (24 p.)	29. (2 p.)	12. (22 p.)	22. (9 p.)	3. (43 P.)	4. (200 p.)	394 P.
8th.	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	155 P.	49.	14. (18 p.)	45.	2. (46 P.)	34.	5. (37 p.)	28. (3 p.)	8. (128 P.)	387 P.
9.	Jean-Marc Gaillard	39 P.	14. (18 p.)	7. (32 p.)	3. (43 P.)	37.	29. (2 p.)	18. (13 p.)	6. (34 p.)	6. (160 p.)	341 P.
10.	Lukáš Bauer	145 P.	31.	15. (16 p.)	48.	5. (37 p.)	49.	5. (37 p.)	28. (3 p.)	11. (96 p.)	336 P.

Ratings in the course of the tour

The table shows the leader in the respective classification after the respective stage.

	Overall rating		Sprint scoring		Nations ranking
	Women	Men	Women	Men
prolog	Claudia Nystad	Axel Teichmann	Claudia Nystad	Axel Teichmann	Germany
persecution	Virpi Kuitunen	Dario Cologna			Norway
1st sprint	Arianna Follis		Arianna Follis	Gate Arne Hetland
Distance races	Virpi Kuitunen
2nd sprint	Aino-Kaisa Saarinen
Mass start	Virpi Kuitunen		Petra Majdič
Mountain pursuit

Prize money

Prize money for the final evaluations and daily bonuses

	1.	2.	3.	...	10.	Every day	total
Overall rating	131,250 CHF	87,750 CHF	43,750 CHF	...	CHF 2,187.50	CHF 2,500	300,000 CHF
Sprint scoring	010,000 CHF	05,000 CHF	0CHF 2,500	-			020,000 CHF
Team evaluation	010,000 CHF	06,000 CHF	04,000 CHF	-			020,000 CHF
stage	005,000 CHF	03,000 CHF	0CHF 2,000	-			010,000 CHF

reporting

The sports broadcaster Eurosport took over the live broadcast of the Tour de Ski in 59 countries, including Germany . Commentator Stéphane Franke and expert Viola Bauer commented for the German-speaking audience. In addition to Eurosport, the public broadcasters ARD and ZDF alternately broadcast partly live reports and partly recordings from the Tour de Ski. Yorck Polus moderated the ZDF (without experts), the reporter was Peter Leissl , and Jens-Jörg Rieck reported on the stages as a reporter on ARD . Due to the good performance of athletes from Switzerland like Dario Cologna before the Tour de Ski, the Swiss broadcaster SF Zwei also decided to report on the Tour de Ski. Some races should be broadcast live, others in recordings. Overall, the final on the final ascent to Alpe Cermis was shown live by twelve television stations.

Review

Tour itinerary

Petter Northug (pictured here at the season finale in Trondheim) was identified by the media as one of Cologna's future main opponents.

In the end, the results of the women came as little surprise, as Virpi Kuitunen had already finished first and second in the first two events. The Finn herself said that this success was nicer for her than the previous ones because she had to fight harder for victory. Her compatriot Aino-Kaisa Saarinen was overall satisfied with second place behind Kuitunen, even though she was "a bit disappointed" right after the tour.

In the men's race, Dario Cologna's victory was unexpected, but ultimately safe. The national media recorded the success of a Swiss in the cross-country skiing discipline, which is viewed more as a marginal sport, as the greatest success in more than 20 years; In 1988 Andreas Grünenfelder won the Olympic bronze medal over 50 kilometers. The tour winner himself expressed satisfaction, but his bigger goal was the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Petter Northug, who, like Cologna, was only 22 years old, said he and Cologna “will often fight each other in the future”. In the media there was also talk of an eternal duel beginning . The winner of the sprint classification, Tor Arne Hetland, like Axel Teichmann, was delighted with the outcome of the Tour de Ski. The conclusion for the German men's team was drawn by the German national coach Jochen Behle , who was satisfied with the performance of the male athletes, especially those of Axel Teichmann.

Overall, the media and coaches confirmed that the Tour de Ski went well, but Jochen Behle criticized the preference given to runners who were strong in the classic style and in the sprint. The Norwegian Vegard Ulvang , one of the developers of the Tour de Ski, on the other hand, saw the second place of the freestyle runner Petter Northug in the men's category as an indication that the mixture between the races of the different styles was right. On the final day of the Tour de Ski, their future was also announced; Since it had established itself and FIS President Gian-Franco Kasper was also convinced of the stage race, it will continue until at least 2013. During this period, Oberhof will always be the start of the tour and Val di Fiemme including the Final Climb the end of the tour. In addition, cities from Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Germany and the Czech Republic applied for further stages.

Impact on the World Cup

As expected, the award of the maximum achievable 750 World Cup points (400 of which alone for victory) changed the overall ranking of the World Cup significantly. The male leader until then, Ola Vigen Hattestad, fell back to 13th place due to his non-participation, while athletes such as Jean-Marc Gaillard and Vasily Rotschew improved significantly thanks to their good tour results. The women's ranking did not change that much; there Virpi Kuitunen did not manage to take over the top despite her victory, at which Aino-Kaisa Saarinen remained. The best athlete without a tour was initially Charlotte Kalla as 19.

Overall, the 400 points in the Women's World Cup at the top did little, with Justyna Kowalczyk (fourth) winning ahead of Petra Majdič (third). The two Finns Saarinen and Kuitunen fell back to third and fourth place. Things were different for the men, where Dario Cologna held the lead for a long time before Petter Northug took the lead again in the penultimate World Cup. However, Cologna secured victory in the overall World Cup at the World Cup final, so that for the third time in a row after Tobias Angerer and Lukáš Bauer, the Tour de Ski winner also became the overall World Cup winner. Ola Vigen Hattestad was able to collect many World Cup points and win the Sprint World Cup, but in the overall World Cup he was a good third behind Cologna and Northug.

Web links

• Tour de Ski 2008/09 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Tour de Ski website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nadine Gärtner: Tour de Ski 2008/2009 without Charlotte Kalla? (No longer available online.) In: xc-ski.de. January 11, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 11, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
2. ↑ Nadine Gärtner: 18 nations at Tour de Ski: short-term cancellations. (No longer available online.) In: xc-ski.de. December 17, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 11, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
3. ↑ Rejection because of flu-like infection. In: sport.orf.at. Retrieved January 11, 2009 . 
4. ↑ Green light for Tobias Angerer. In: Rheinische Post. December 23, 2008, accessed January 11, 2009 . 
5. ↑ Laurence Rochat falls ill - not Tour de Ski. In: live-wintersport.com. December 26, 2008, accessed January 11, 2009 . 
6. ↑ Dette he sprintkongen! In: Nettavisen. December 20, 2008, accessed March 11, 2009 (Norwegian). 
7. ↑ Two stars cancel at short notice. (No longer available online.) In: MDR.de. December 27, 2008, archived from the original on December 27, 2008 ; Retrieved January 11, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Favorites on tour-de-ski.com ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ Lothar Martin: Tour de Ski: Lukáš Bauer's form curve points upwards. In: radio.cz. January 2, 2009. Retrieved January 11, 2009 . 
10. ↑ We are looking for the most versatile cross-country skier. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. December 27, 2008, accessed January 11, 2009 . 
11. ↑ Favorites are others: Axel Teichmann hopes for a good start to the tour. (No longer available online.) In: xc-ski.de. December 22, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 11, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
12. ^ Teichmann second in prologue. In: Der Tagesspiegel. December 28, 2008, accessed January 11, 2009 . 
13. ↑ "VIESSMANN" CROSS COUNTRY FIS WORLD CUP World Cup Cross-Country 2008/09 WORLD CUP STANDING LADIES OVERALL (PDF; 83 kB)
14. ↑ TOUR DE SKI OVERALL STANDING LADIES ( Memento of the original dated December 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
15. ↑ TOUR DE SKI OVERALL STANDING MEN
16. ↑ TOUR DE SKI SPRINT STANDING LADIES (PDF; 61 kB)
17. ↑ TOUR DE SKI SPRINT STANDING MEN (PDF; 64 kB)
18. ↑ TOUR DE SKI TEAM STANDING AFTER STAGE 7  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
19. ↑ Prologue Ladies 2.8 km Free Individual Results  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
20. ↑ Prologue Men 3.7 km Free Individual Results  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
21. ↑ Ladies 10 km Classic Pursuit 'Handicap' Start Result  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
22. ↑ Men 15 km Classic Pursuit 'Handicap' Start Result  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
23. ↑ Ladies 1.3 km Free Sprint Results  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
24. ↑ Men 1.3 km Free Sprint Results  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
25. ↑ Ladies 9 km Classic Individual Results  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
26. ↑ Men 15 km Classic Individual Results  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
27. ↑ Ladies 1.2 km Free Sprint Results  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
28. ↑ Men 1.2 km Free Sprint Results  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
29. ↑ Ladies 10 km Classic Mass Start Results  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
30. ↑ Men 20 km Classic Mass Start Results  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
31. ↑ Ladies 9 km Free Final Climb Pursuit 'Handicap' Start Result  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
32. ↑ Men 10 km Free Final Climb Pursuit 'Handicap' Start Result  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
33. ↑ WORLD CUP STANDING LADIES OVERALL  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
34. ↑ WORLD CUP STANDING MEN OVERALL  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
35. ↑ FIS Tour de Ski Prize Money ( Memento of the original dated December 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
36. ↑ Alexander Rösch: Eurosport reports on "FIS Tour de Ski". (No longer available online.) In: magnus.de. December 16, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 14, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
37. ↑ Mario Felgenhauer: Tour de Ski: highlight and challenge at the same time. (No longer available online.) In: xc-ski.de. December 23, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 14, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
38. ↑ Program of the ZDF SPORTextra from January 3, 2009 ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On tv14.de. Retrieved March 14, 2009.  
39. ↑ Program of the ZDF SPORTextra from December 29, 2008 ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On tv14.de. Retrieved March 14, 2009.  
40. ↑ Cross-country Tour de Ski from December 27, 2008 ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On tv14.de. Retrieved March 14, 2009.  
41. ↑ SF two shows Tour de Ski with Dario Cologna. (No longer available online.) In: swiss-ski.ch. December 23, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 14, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
42. ↑ Benedikt Vogt: Cross-country trails. In: swiss-ski.ch. December 27, 2008, accessed March 14, 2009 . 
43. ↑ ^{a b c} Voices after the final stage: "I will certainly fight Cologna often in the future". (No longer available online.) In: xc-ski.de. January 5, 2009, archived from the original on December 17, 2009 ; Retrieved March 22, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
44. ↑ Cologna superior Tour de Ski winner. In: swissinfo.org. January 4, 2009, accessed March 22, 2009 . 
45. ↑ As good as won an epic duel. In: nzz.ch. March 22, 2009. Retrieved March 22, 2009 . 
46. ↑ ^{a b} National coach Behle draws a conclusion on the tour: light and shadow in the German camp. (No longer available online.) In: xc-ski.de. January 5, 2009; archived from the original on December 14, 2009 ; Retrieved March 22, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
47. ↑ Tour de Ski continues in Oberhof. In: focus.de. January 4, 2009, accessed March 24, 2009 . 

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